top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-09-24

Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

https://jenson.org/text/

3 years ago

1276 upvotes – 681 comments

A hacker's guide to language models [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrNMKz9pWU

3 years ago

821 upvotes – 35 comments

Choose Postgres queue technology

https://adriano.fyi/posts/2023-09-24-choose-postgres-queue-technology/

3 years ago

762 upvotes – 362 comments

Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/7338941576/how-two-photographers-captured-the-same-millisecond-in-time

3 years ago

519 upvotes – 109 comments

There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org

https://en.osm.town/@openstreetmap/111120663721969898

3 years ago

435 upvotes – 75 comments

Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

https://www.lanternbioworks.com

3 years ago

416 upvotes – 296 comments

Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs

3 years ago

339 upvotes – 142 comments

Workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis

https://news.yahoo.com/california-workers-cut-countertops-dying-100021788.html

3 years ago

307 upvotes – 455 comments

PID Control Challenges

http://janismac.github.io/ControlChallenges/

3 years ago

301 upvotes – 116 comments

Show HN: Get your entire ChatGPT history in Markdown files

https://github.com/mohamed-chs/chatgpt-history-export-to-md

3 years ago

295 upvotes – 22 comments

Full Resolution Photo Archive

http://aurelm.com/portfolio/aurel-manea-photo-archive/

3 years ago

293 upvotes – 90 comments

μMon: Stupid simple monitoring (2022)

https://tomscii.sig7.se/2022/07/uMon-stupid-simple-monitoring

3 years ago

290 upvotes – 106 comments

Texas death row inmate at mercy of supreme court, and junk science

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/texas-death-row-robert-roberson-supreme-court-shaken-baby-syndrome

3 years ago

253 upvotes – 239 comments

Google will retire Gmail’s Basic HTML view in January 2024

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 249 comments

Unpacking Elixir: Resilience

https://underjord.io/unpacking-elixir-resilience.html

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 57 comments

LARPing and Violent Extremism

https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/larping-and-violent-extremism

3 years ago

201 upvotes – 208 comments

Netflix prepares to send its final red envelope

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/business/media/netflix-dvds.html

3 years ago

197 upvotes – 282 comments

‘Mind-boggling’ sea creature identified as digenean trematode

https://www.science.org/content/article/mind-boggling-sea-creature-spotted-japan-has-finally-been-identified

3 years ago

191 upvotes – 38 comments

Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberland”, seized property

https://liberlandpress.com/2023/09/22/brutal-croatian-invades-liberland-destroys-houses/

3 years ago

185 upvotes – 319 comments

TCP's congestion control saved the internet

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/24/tcp_congestion_control_internet/

3 years ago

171 upvotes – 47 comments

NASA’s Osiris-Rex capsule lands in Utah with Bennu asteroid sample

https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2023/sep/24/bennu-asteroid-sample-nasa-osiris-rex-mission-earth-updates

3 years ago

171 upvotes – 3 comments

The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old

https://torrentfreak.com/the-worlds-oldest-active-torrent-turns-20-years-old-230924/

3 years ago

169 upvotes – 50 comments

Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Minecraft_Wiki:Moving_from_Fandom

3 years ago

166 upvotes – 206 comments

TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold

https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/09/21/tiktok-is-changing-the-way-books-are-recommended-and-sold

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 147 comments

An audacious plan to halt the internet's enshittification [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 55 comments

PiWrite – Kindle Paperwhite to Write

https://github.com/rberenguel/PiWrite

3 years ago

163 upvotes – 49 comments

What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@AshleyGullen/111109299141510319

3 years ago

153 upvotes – 168 comments

Our humble attempt at “how much data do you need to fine-tune”

https://barryzhang.substack.com/p/our-humble-attempt-at-fine-tuning

3 years ago

149 upvotes – 37 comments

The myth of the myth of learning styles

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202309/the_myth_of_the_myth_of_learning_styles.html

3 years ago

140 upvotes – 104 comments

One man’s quest to end cheating in virtual cycling

https://thehustle.co/one-mans-quest-to-end-cheating-in-virtual-cycling/

3 years ago

139 upvotes – 125 comments

Fiber in C++: Understanding the Basics

https://agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/fiber_in_cpp_understanding_the_basics/

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 75 comments

Building a string art machine

https://medium.com/@paulmorrishill/building-a-string-art-machine-eeee386a38db

3 years ago

135 upvotes – 19 comments

Valley Fever Is a Growing Fungal Threat to Outdoor Workers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/valley-fever-is-a-growing-fungal-threat-to-outdoor-workers/

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 32 comments

Ash Framework

https://ash-hq.org/

3 years ago

115 upvotes – 33 comments

OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdwyqctp908

3 years ago

114 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Karektar – Bitmap Font Designer

https://karektar.newtrino.ink/

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 25 comments

The Cutting Room Floor

https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor

3 years ago

109 upvotes – 21 comments

Natalie – a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++

https://github.com/natalie-lang/natalie

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Pigsty – Free RDS Alternative

https://github.com/Vonng/pigsty

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 50 comments

Introducing geometric algebra to software developers

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06668

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 45 comments

TypeScript NPM Packages Done Right

https://blog.liblab.com/typescript-npm-packages-done-right/

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 78 comments

LLM Falcon 180B Needs 720GB RAM to Run

https://kaitchup.substack.com/p/falcon-180b-can-it-run-on-your-computer

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 35 comments

Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip (2020)

https://www.righto.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-classic-mk4116-16.html

3 years ago

96 upvotes – 20 comments

How Mastercard sells its ‘gold mine’ of transaction data

https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/how-mastercard-sells-data/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Brightline Orlando's first train: 125 mph from MCO to MIA [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu18ZqWgQM4

3 years ago

89 upvotes – 163 comments

Hookworm gave the South a bad name (2016)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 50 comments

Google ending Basic HTML support for Gmail in 2024

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2023/09/google-ending-basic-html-support-for.html

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 75 comments

One robber baron’s gamble on railroads

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/robber-baron-gamble-railroads-brought-down-bank-plunged-us-into-first-great-depression-panic-1873-180982877/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 102 comments

Is this ‘which’ dead?

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2023/09/which-3.html

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 67 comments

“What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus?” – An Empirical Study (2000)

https://web.archive.org/web/20011113013913/http://segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=38b40d78-087dd360

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 31 comments

Low Tech Crypto: Solitaire (2020)

https://alicegg.tech//2020/01/03/solitaire.html

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

Two-Tower Embedding Model

https://www.hopsworks.ai/dictionary/two-tower-embedding-model

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

My Pure Rust Wishlist

https://gburghoorn.com/posts/pure-rust-wishlist/

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Knuth's 20 Questions for ChatGPT

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments
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